Is it me or does it seem like we're trying to be like the Mavs?

2 championships. :grin:

But seriously, who are the assets with big contracts nobody wants? Miller is the only one I can think of that maybe comes close.

 

Yao and Tmac were suppose to be our Dirk. =(
I really have no problem with the geekiness or the michael bubble.
I love what morey has done with his GM duties and disagree that he's taken on big contracts. He's done a great job with the cap and acquiring cheap talent, what a great GM is supposed to do.
My big problem is that he should stick with his GM duties and not put blame on others for stars not wanting to be here in Houston. It's still on him to get the players not the coach. And by players I mean players that can play basketball and are not just walking seven footers.

 

I'd say that's a very big difference.

 

Heh. I think you mean Haywood Jeffries, not Jeffrey Haywood.
:grin:

 

Actually I think he meant Brendan Haywood lol

 

like the mavs, but tough

 

hey, once les alexander is willing to pay anything like mark cuban does, lets talk.

for now, rockets will never match the mavs while alexander is here.

Look at their payroll for the Cuban era and look at our pay roll for the Yao era.

We celebrate when we sign Chase Budinger to this "bargain" rookie contract, while they celebrate when they sign Shawn Marion to a 40 year deal.

That's the difference.

 

The Rockets emulating the Mavs? And the only difference is "they have Dirk"?

Not hardly and not even close.

An intellectual interest in statistics does NOT equate to $Ball. Cuban spends money on players in a manner that makes Morey and Les break out in a cold sweat.

Morey tweaks things with contracts under $3M like Landry and Brooks. Cuban tweaks things like the then max contracts of Juwan Howard, Antawn Jamison and even a year of Antoine Walker.

Not that it's the sole difference. But those players alone are highly more speculative than anything Morey has done. Or will do.

 

^lol, I should say, 40 million dollar deal. Not 40 year.

 

this. i don't see the comparison. cuban and les are very different. the mavs' approach to personnel seems very different from the rockets.

 

Do you mean our Rockets want to emulate a franchise that was won 50 games in 11 straight seasons, made two finals appearances over that span and has a renegade owner willing to spend whatever it takes to win?

Minus the comparisons in the analytical aspects, not sure how trading for Jason Kidd and Shane Battier are similar. Kidd was still one of the top 10 PGuards at that time and was to be the final piece to a championship while Shane was simply just a great complement to Yao/Tmac.

 

Dallas Mavericks payrolls:
2010/11 - 90.7M
2009/10 - 87.7M

Houston Rockets payrolls:
2010/11 - 72.7M
2009/10 - 69.3M

I can't find data that go back before that, but do we really need to elaborate on this point?

If you look at it closely, the mid-level exception and ability to retain your own free agents at any cost has destroyed parity in the NBA. Teams like Dallas and LA just reload every year and climb higher and higher in payroll without any repercussion whatsoever.

 

This complete crap

Kobe Wade, Dwyane Bryant, LeBron Durant and Kevin James all are not happy with this crap

 

Do any trades of big name players happen anymore without an additional contract or two getting dumped along with the star player? I don't think that's exclusive to the Rockets or Mavs.

Where did you hear that we are going to sign an army of coaches? The Rockets have acknowledged that they will have coaches specializing in certain areas but I haven't heard them say that they will have an inordinately large coaching staff like the Mavs did.

 

The Mavs definitely have more than an "intellectual interest in statistics". Adjusted +/- was driving a lot of their decision making, including their coaching hire. Cuban blogged about Kidd's +/- numbers as justification when he made that trade. He hired the 82games.com guy (Roland Beech) to sit behind the bench every game and provide his insights as an analyst to their staff. He's big on that stuff.

That said, yes the Mavs and Rockets are very different organizationally. The key difference is one team has a stable superstar in place, and the other team does not. Also, its no surprise that Cuban is more willing to gamble with his money than Morey is willing to gamble with his boss's money.

 

If we move up to draft Donatas Motiejunas then I would say yes.

 

Hah. Yeah I knew he mean Brendan, but got to give an oiler some love.